If Obama has his way, mankind may well be driven over the edge of the cliff in the form of a thermonuclear war provocation by the United States and NATO against Russia and China, Lyndon LaRouche warned today.

The large-scale NATO maneuvers that began yesterday in Poland and the Baltic states, and that involve 31,000 troops from 24 countries in a 10-day exercise simulating a supposed Russian invasion of the region, in themselves are an immediate potential trigger. Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko, yesterday explained the danger bluntly, in remarks that Mr. LaRouche considered very much to the point:

“What we are seeing today in the Baltic states, as a matter of fact, is nothing but attempts towards force development with the hostile policy pursued by NATO in the recent time. I would not say that it is a direct threat for Russia but, nevertheless, it obviously creates serious risks as we see an absolutely new military reality forming along our border.” Grushko elaborated that NATO warnings of a non-existent Russian threat can materialize into actions. “The policy (of NATO) lives in surrealistic reality, and the most dangerous thing is that it now starts taking shape of military planning and military preparations carried out on territories along our borders.”

LaRouche emphasized that Russia under President Putin will make their own decision in their own way, in response to these probes. If the British, Obama and NATO want war, they are going to get it, and it will be terrible: thermonuclear World War III–that’s what you are talking about.

There is a strategy, long-identified by LaRouche, to defeat this “surrealistic” policy of genocide emanating from the British Empire. It requires the immediate removal of Obama from the White House, both to get his finger away from the nuclear button, as well as to entirely kick over the chessboard of the lunatic U.S. presidential election, which is currently offering Americans a choice between cyanide and strychnine. And it also requires the U.S. and Europe joining the win-win New Paradigm of science-driven economic development, championed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and which continues to move forward aggressively across Eurasia.

The issue before us is captured by the title of a major Schiller Institute event that the LaRouche movement will hold in San Francisco on June 8: “Will the U.S. Join the New Silk Road? A Choice of Global Scientific Development or Nuclear World War.”